GENEVA (Day)

Composer: George Henry Day

George Henry Day (1883-1966) was a choirboy at Trinity Chapel, New York City, where he studied with G. Edward Stubbs. Day was appointed choirmaster at St. Peter’s in Chelsea Square (1911) but maintained his position as an assistant auditor of the Gorham Manufacturing Company for two more years. He resigned as assistant auditor, took special courses at Columbia University, and in 1915 graduated from New York College of Music. He served as organist and choirmaster in churches in Youngstown, Ohio; Wilmington, Delaware, where he studied with Edward Shippen Barnes; and Rochester, New York, before going to Trinity Church. He was awarded a Doctor of Music degree from Lincoln-Jefferson University (1923). --The Presbyterian Hymnal Companion,… Go to person page >

Tune Information

Title: GENEVA (Day)
Composer: George Henry Day (1940)
Meter: 8.7.8.7 D
Incipit: 53451 42345 31231
Key: f minor
Copyright: By permission of The Church Pension Fund

Timeline

Arrangements

Harmonizations, Introductions, Descants, Intonations

  • The Creative Use of the Organ in Worship
    Composer/Editor Hal H. Hopson
    Published By: Hope Publishing Company (2000) pp. 43
  • Free Harmonizations of Hymn Tunes: By Fifty American Composers
    Composer/Editor D. DeWitt Wasson
    Published By: Hinshaw Music, Inc. (1984) pp. 89
  • The Concordia Hymn Prelude Series Volume 25: General: F - Gott des
    Composer/Editors Herbert Gotsch; Sam Batt Owens
    Published By: Concordia Publishing House (1984) pp. 33

Organ Solo

  • God and Country: Organ Settings of Hymn Tunes for National Occasions
    Composer/Editor Emma Lou Diemer
    Published By: The Sacred Music Press (1997) pp. 12
  • Grace Notes IV for Organ: Prayer, Praise and Thanksgiving
    Composer/Editor Timothy Albrecht
    Published By: Augsburg Fortress (1995) pp. 4
  • The Concordia Hymn Prelude Series Volume 25: General: F - Gott des
    Composer/Editors Herbert Gotsch; Sam Batt Owens
    Published By: Concordia Publishing House (1984) pp. 32
  • With Praise and Love Volume II: Settings of 19th Century Hymn Tunes for Organ
    Composer/Editor Emma Lou Diemer
    Published By: The Sacred Music Press (1979) pp. 27

Instances

Instances (1 - 45 of 45)

A Hymnal for Friends #105

A New Hymnal for Colleges and Schools #423

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At Worship #55

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Christian Worship #594

El Himnario #124

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El Himnario Presbiteriano #124

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Evangelical Lutheran Hymnary #20

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Glory to God #190

Hinário Luterano #29

Hinário para o Culto Cristão #581

Hinário para o Culto Cristão (2nd ed.) #581

Hymnbook for Christian Worship #203

Hymns of the Saints #403

Hymns of the Saints #438

Journeysongs (2nd ed.) #853

Lift Up Your Hearts #115

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Lift Up Your Hearts #133

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Lutheran Book of Worship #437

One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism #443

RitualSong (2nd ed.) #905

RitualSong (2nd ed.) #1055

RitualSong #839

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Service Book and Hymnal of the Lutheran Church in America #345

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Seventh-day Adventist Hymnal #194

Singing the Faith #260

The Book of Praise #186

The Covenant Hymnal #707

The Faith We Sing #2102

The Harvard University Hymn Book #255

The Hymn Book of the Anglican Church of Canada and the United Church of Canada #125

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The Hymnal 1982 #515

The Hymnal of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America 1940 #145

The Hymnal of the United Church of Christ #67

The Hymnal of the United Church of Christ #259

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The Hymnbook #512

The Presbyterian Hymnal #73

The Presbyterian Hymnal #136

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The Presbyterian Hymnal #317

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The United Methodist Hymnal #124

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The Worshipbook #479

Voices Together #307

Worship (3rd ed.) #655

Worship (4th ed.) #555

Worship (4th ed.) #793

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Worship Supplement 2000 #740

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